Sir William Jenner has published eminently valuable clinical systematic lectures in the medical journals, and a small treatise on Diphtheria (1861). His addresses to the British Medical Association (1869), and to the Epidemiological Society (1866), published together, are most excellent as summaries of the modern progress of medicine, and as pointing out the directions in which future advances may be made. He insists most strongly on and desires most ardently the prevention of disease, and shows a striking readiness to welcome new discoveries. * * * * * Few more striking individualities have been seen among the provincial physicians of our day than that of WILLIAM BUDD, of Clifton. He was one of the younger sons of Mr. Samuel Budd, a successful medical practitioner at North Tawton in Devonshire, who having very considerable culture and foresightedness, brought up most of his large family at home, and was ultimately enabled to introduce seven out of nine sons to the medical profession, sending seven to Cambridge, where five became wranglers. One of the elder brothers, George Budd, was long Professor of Medicine at King’s College, London, the author of an excellent treatise on Diseases of the Liver, and a most successful London physician. William Budd was born in September 1811; his medical studies were pursued in London, Edinburgh, and Paris, in the latter of which cities he spent four years. Graduating M.D. in 1838 at Edinburgh, he for some time afterwards assisted his father in his practice at North Tawton, and here in 1839 commenced his lifelong studies on typhoid fever, having himself been already a sufferer by that malady. He had peculiar advantages in this study, for he was personally acquainted with every inhabitant of the village, and being as medical practitioner in almost exclusive possession of the field, nearly every one who fell ill, not only in the village itself, but over a large area around it, came immediately under his care. At the date of the outbreak the population of eleven or twelve hundred had been extremely exempt from fevers. Yet there was no sewerage system; cesspools prevailed; pig styes were close to the houses; and all conditions of decomposition were to be found;—but fever did not arise till it had been specifically introduced. In July 1839 the first case of typhoid occurred, and before the beginning of November over eighty of the inhabitants had suffered from it. Young Budd kept an accurate and detailed record of every essential fact, and spared no pains in tracing out all extraneous facts that he required to know. He was extremely struck by the fact that three persons left North Tawton after they had been infected, and all three communicated the disease to one or more of the persons by whom they were surrounded. The narrative which Dr. Budd gave many years afterwards, in his “Typhoid Fever: its Nature, Mode of Spreading, and Prevention” (1873), is like